> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 07:42:21 -0700
> From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org>
> To: Editor Engagement <ee@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [EE] Account creation suggestion
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> On Sep 5, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:25 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we automatically sign up users for Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests.
> >
> > Pine
> >
> > Before we do that, let's make Signpost delivery a notification (i.e. instead of dropping it on your talk page, just notify you when a new edition is released). Then it's quite easy to opt everyone in, new or existing.
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> +1 excellent idea
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> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 22:35:25 +0100
> From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>
> To: Editor Engagement <ee@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [EE] Account creation suggestion
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> I have a vague recollection of discussing this before with someone (Steven?)
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> I'd love to see this done, but one caveat - since it effectively means
> a weekly message to them, some clear way to unsubscribe would be
> needed, preferably without the technically complex solution of "edit
> this page, find your username, remove it".
>
> Thinking ahead...
>
> There's around a dozen projects both on enwiki and elsewhere that have
> active newsletters, as well - the most obvious is the research
> newsletter, but This Month In GLAM, some wikiproject-specific
> newsletters, etc etc. A single easy way to sign up for more than one
> of these, plus other opt-in messaging services like SuggestBot, would
> be very nice.
>
> For more advanced users, if we had such an interface, you could add
> features like the randomised RFC recruitment feature.
>
> But starting with the Signpost sounds great :-). I recommend you talk
> to Ed (user:the_ed17) ASAP if you're interested in pushing ahead with
> something like this.
>
> Andrew.
>
>
> On 6 September 2013 07:25, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we automatically sign up users for
> > Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up
> > for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific
> > newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the
> > broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests.
> >
> > Pine
> >
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Hi Andrew, you may be thinking of Flow. I have seen a reference to Flow handling newsletters. We don't need Ed's permission to distribute the Signpost but I agree that an opt-out option should be included in the notification in a way that's easy for the user to select so that the Signpost's talk pages aren't flooded with opt-out requests.

Steven, that's a great idea for wider visibility. Can you talk to the right people to implement this notification, along with an opt-out feature, forward compatibility with Flow, and the capacity to add other newsletters such as Kurier or This Month in GLAM on any wiki that uses Echo?

Pine